updated 04:49 pm EDT, Mon September 10, 2012

No deal on horizon

A Friday court filing, made public today, confirms that Apple and HTC have met in recent weeks to conduct court-ordered settlement talks, FOSS Patents reports. One session is said to have happened the week of August 13th, while a second took place "more recently." The filing notes that more talks are planned. "While the private parties did not reach a settlement, there is an understanding that the private parties will continue settlement discussions in the future," the document reads. "The private parties have made good-faith efforts to resolve this Enforcement Proceeding and will continue to do so."

The next attempt at settling patent disputes could come on September 19th, since the US District Court for the District of Delaware originally ordered talks for August 28th, but postponed them to the later date. An agreement may be unlikely at this stage; at one point Apple and HTC actually attempted to stay all proceedings including settlement talks, but the court blocked the motion. The issue, at the time, was whether HTC had standing to assert patents it obtained from Google. More recently, HTC chairwoman Cher Wang has claimed that her company has no plans to settle any lawsuits with Apple.